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Voices of the fields / produced, directed and edited by Selene Jaramillo and Ulla Nilsen.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Mexico.
- Agriculture.
- Free trade--Economic aspects--Mexico.
- Free trade.
- Farmers--Mexico.
- Farmers.
- Pesticides--Mexico.
- Pesticides.
- Agriculture, Cooperative--Mexico.
- Agriculture, Cooperative.
- Migrant labor--United States.
- Migrant labor.
- Agricultural chemicals--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Agricultural chemicals.
- Mexico--Rural conditions.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--Economic conditions--1994-.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (45 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Cinema Guild, 1997.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- This documentary follows farmworkers from California's Salinas Valley back to their roots in the fields of rural Mexico, where they recount their everyday struggle to cope in the midst of the globalization of agriculture and the impact of NAFTA. Despite health hazards, environmental degradation and the risks of migration, they have managed to provide for their families and to conserve their traditional practices and values. The video also examines rural development projects that work with farmers to develop an agriculture based on people, not profits, a sustainable model which offers solutions to the export-oriented mode of industrial agriculture that threatens the existence of small farmers and human-scale agriculture.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1104052004
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